[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:31 +0100, Nix wrote:
> It would destroy the *manufacturing* economy very rapidly, leaving the
> service economy intact. So you'd get a medium-sized depression in the
> UK, a big one in Italy, and China would be up shit creek, as would the
> Middle East if you were lucky enough to have a matter duplicator that
> could duplicate e.g. oil with minimal energy input. (Of course this
> breaks all sorts of physical laws, but I figure that as long as we're
> playing with matter duplication at all mere physical laws aren't that
> serious).

Even if someone could design and build such a device it wouldn't matter.
They would be labelled terrorists for the potential damage to
"important" parts of the economies of the developed world it would do
and shipped to some suitably dark hole.

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